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The minute I heard of Andrew Breitbart’s sudden passing, and how quickly he passed away, I had a feeling of dread. Maybe it’s just because I’m a whackjob conspiracy theorist. Ok, I’ll own a portion of that. I’ve been known to have to be talked down from a few crazy ideas. At least I can admit it, so I don’t have a problem. Right?

But maybe it’s because, despite his family’s (alleged?) history of heart health issues, I had a hard time believing that Breitbart, a guy with as much energy and vibe as he exhibited at CPAC this year and who has pulled off some freakishly awesome video truthtelling over the past few years, would have the propensity to simply keel over in instant death at midnight while walking down the street…in the dark…after just weeks before having claimed to possess incriminating videos of the most power-mad president in U.S. history, Barack Hussein Obama, from his college days…and stuff.

Look, I’m not entirely immune to the idea that it was a bunch of capitalist pig Wall Street-ers behind this and other suspicious deaths around the country. After all, they have a lot to lose if Obama is suddenly no longer “their guy”.

Nevertheless, here are the deliberate, emphatic, and truthful words that I think should immortalize Mr. Breitbart: “Barack Obama is a radical. We should not be afraid to say that.”

Yeah, them was fightin’ words he spoke at CPAC. Those videos he had are toxic now. If he didn’t set a dead man’s trigger, I hope he at least left them in the care of someone able enough not to get killed in the process of distributing them. Whoever it is that has them, upload them to YouTube, Vimeo, and as many other video sites as you can find! Now! They’re coming for you next!

Breitbart probably never saw it coming…whatever…or whoever… it was that killed him.

But then I thought to myself, what more perfect example could there possibly be about why many conservatives get paranoid about Obama? I mean since Obama has become president conservatives have often wondered: is he really this bad at his job, or is he some kind of evil genius trying to intentionally frak up this country?

Now, consider this syllogism.

1. An unpatriotic act is one that unjustifiably harms this country.

2. Obama has declared that adding $4 Trillion to the debt was an unpatriotic act.

3. As President, Obama has added $4 Trillion to the debt.

4. Therefore Obama is knowingly, intentionally, and unjustifiably engaging in conduct that harms this country.

Now, tell the truth liberals, is there anything at all unreasonable about that syllogism? No.

But there is a reason why that syllogism fails, because there is a hidden premise in it. Let’s call it step 2.5 and insert it back into my syllogism:

1. An unpatriotic act is one that unjustifiably harms this country.

2. Obama has declared that adding $4 Trillion to the debt was an unpatriotic act.

2.5 Obama actually means what he said.

3. As President, Obama has added $4 Trillion to the debt.

4. Therefore Obama is knowingly, intentionally, and unjustifiably engaging in conduct that harms this country.

And as far as I can see, that is the only logical defense to the charge that the President is knowingly and willfully harming this country: that he is a cheeseball politician willing to say one thing to be elected and to do another once he actually has power.

But when he behaves this shamelessly and other people conclude that he is harming this country on purpose, he has no one to blame for it but himself. Which, if he was less shameless, he would recognize.

[Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]

Every time I make this point to a Progressive Statist (and I’ve been doing so for months now) all I get is stunned silence, stammering, then sputtering and rage, followed by a complete change of subject. They cannot answer this logic because they have no facts to back up their own assertions to the contrary. Everytime.

From my observations of such conversations over the years, I have come to two conclusions:

True conservatives vote on the basis of logic and reason, mixed with a certain amount emotion across the patriotic spectrum. They eschew voting based on political expediency for the sole purpose of holding onto power. Power is not a means to an end…it is a thing to be kept in check.

Progressive Statists vote on the basis of emotion alone, whether or not the emotion is patriotic or treasonous. They reach for political expediency like a heroin addict reaches for his needle. They hold onto power until their knuckles are bloody and slip into withdrawals when they lose it, promising always to “do better next time” they try to quit the power trip if we’ll just give them another chance, yet always backsliding.

Then came Mr. Obama, arguably the most spendthrift president in history. He inherited a recession and responded by blowing up the U.S. balance sheet. Spending as a share of GDP in the last three years is higher than at any time since 1946. In three years the debt has increased by more than $4 trillion thanks to stimulus, cash for clunkers, mortgage modification programs, 99 weeks of jobless benefits, record expansions in Medicaid, and more.

The forecast is for $8 trillion to $10 trillion more in red ink through 2021. Mr. Obama hinted in a press conference earlier this month that if it weren’t for Republicans, he’d want another stimulus. Scary thought: None of this includes the ObamaCare entitlement that will place 30 million more Americans on government health rolls.

Let’s put it this way. If you have a chunk of money to invest, or at least keep from losing, who are you going to trust? The financial experts with skin in the game at WSJ, or the Obama sycophants at HuffyPost?

It’s like Obama and Soros don’t even care that we can read their timeline for the destruction of America’s economic superiority and independence from foreign oil directly in the headlines of the news outlets.

Hecklers managed to infiltrate the usually carefully pre-screened audience for the speech. At least one man and one child were heard voicing their disagreement with Obama. The man was escorted away by police for chanting and holding up a sign that read, “Jesus loves ALL the children” and it is uncertain whether the child was removed or stopped chanting on his own accord. The loyal Obama groupies behind him were dumbfounded when they heard the commotion, and again, the president simply found it humorous. Amazing!

You simply have to watch the speech to get the full effect of Obama’s incompetence. It’s like he forgot the whole world was watching and listening to him. The Great Presenter lost his grip mightily, both on his messaging and on the situation.

Also, have a look at the sheeple behind him. At times they have on the smug, pretentious faces you’d expect from Obama groupies. At other times they have that “What? Someone speaks against our dear and brilliant leader? But whatever for? Hi Mom! I’m right behind Obama! See me?” look on their faces.

And he doesn’t even know the record of Coakley’s opponent, Scott Brown?

Don’t get me started on Coakley’s record of giving sex offenders a free pass. That right there should disqualify her in every single voter’s mind and hand Scott Brown a landslide victory.

Come on, Massachusetts, put your heads into the game. Obama’s stump speech for Coakley, contrary to what he tried and failed to convey, is exactly along party lines to keep a filibuster-proof majority in the House so he can continue to hand sweetheart health care deals to unions.